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The Translator of Desires - Poems by Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin; Sells, Michael (Translator);
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation Ser.
A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translation The Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240 CE), one of the most influential writers of classical Arabic and Islamic civilization. In this aut ...Show more
The Volcano and After - Selected and New Poems 2002-2019 by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Category: Poetry | Series: Pitt Poetry Ser.
Alicia Suskin Ostriker's passionate voice has long been acknowledged as a vital force in American poetry. From urgent spiritual quest to biting political satire, from elegy to comedy, from celebration of the city street and the world "as a paradise might be / if we had eyes to see," to the "crack in ear ...Show more
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Famous for juxtaposing Eastern cultures with Western literary references, The Waste Land has been celebrated for its eloquence, depth of meaning, and numerous subtleties. Rich with allusions to the religious texts of Hinduism and Buddhism, ancient literature, and Eliot's own life, the poem continues to ...Show more
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T S Eliot
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain . . . Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation which has lost none of its power as w ...Show more
The World Last Night by M.T.C. Cronin
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
An exciting new collection from one of Australia's most daring poets. The world tomorrow is haunted only by what doesn't happen now. A new volume from Cronin is much-anticipated and The World Last Night is rich, polished and delightful. It has a confidence and grace about it and moves from wit to whimsy ...Show more
There Once Was a Limerick Anthology: Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Mark Twain, Carolyn Wells, Woodrow Wilson and Others by Michael Croland (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
Humor buffs and poetry lovers will laugh out loud with this captivating collection of more than 350 limericks. A limerick is a five-line rhyming poem with a bouncy rhythm, and common varieties include geographical and bawdy limericks as well as tongue twisters and creative misspellings. Limerick legends ...Show more
This Rare Spirit - A Life of Charlotte Mew by Julia Copus
Category: Biography | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The first comprehensive biography of this undervalued writer, who was considered 'far and away the best living woman poet' in her day. The British poet Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers, including Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sasson, Walter de la ...Show more
Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2018One of Bustle's 12 Most Anticipated Poetry Collections for 2018Hannah Sullivan's debut collection is a revelation - three long poems of fresh ambition, intensity, and substance. Though each poem stands apart, their inventive and looping encounters make for a comp ...Show more
Throat by Ellen van Neerven
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
not in Aus, matebad things don't happen here our beaches are open they are not places where bloodied mattresses burn 'Throat' is the explosive second poetry collection from award-winning Mununjali Yugambeh writer Ellen van Neerven. Exploring love, language and land, van Neerven flexes their distinctive ...Show more
To Practice the Rhythms by Yu Ouyang (Translator); Cai Shu
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Chinese Poetry Ser.
Three Yearsthe land, extending itself, makes one turn after another, spitting village after village, till it gives its cold light to the gaping grave.I, a blunt knife, hammered on an anvil have been hardened--for three years three years Till a miracle happens-- will I be able to return from it?Born in 1 ...Show more
Trigger Warning by Maria Takolander
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Trigger Warning is not for the fainthearted, but neither are the elemental realities of domestic violence and environmental catastrophe that these astonishing poems address. Comprised of three sections, the first summons a difficult personal history by conversing with poets - from Sylvia Plath to Anne C ...Show more
Two American Scenes by Lydia Davis & Eliot Weinberger
Category: Poetry | Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets Ser.
Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet" series, Two American Scenes features two masters of the essay discussing "found material." Excerpts: It was given to me, in the nineteenth century, to spend a lifetime on this earth. Along with a few of the sorrowsthat are appointed unto men, I have had innumerabl ...Show more